#alabama music

[nugothrhythms]

"Baron" by Warrior, Alabama-based goth rock and blackwave act Ritual Blood off of 2022 release Blessed Moon

[daddysmusicblog]

[mywifeleftme]

187: Phosphorescent // Muchacho

Muchacho Phosphorescent 2013, Dead Oceans (Bandcamp)

I thought Muchacho was a masterpiece when I first heard it ten years ago, and it’s never really slipped in my estimation. We’re far enough now from the early ‘10s to have our own personal senses of what has and has not lasted—the water level has risen and the mountaintops have become islands. Muchacho is the soundtrack to the wanderings of a mystic with decidedly clay feet, someone whose eyes have been burned from staring too long at the sun in search of God, brimming with sweetness and a fearful need who’ll nonetheless disappear on you without notice for months at a time. A terrible man to date (circa 2010 anyway), in other words, but one with the magnetism that comes from living intensely, as though music, love, bacchanalia, and the soul are matters with real stakes.

According to singer-songwriter Matthew Houck, the songs arose after returning from a tour and finding his personal life in ruins: “lost the place, lost the girl, lost my mind.” And while depicting yourself on an album sleeve surrounded by multiple women in various states of undress isn’t the greatest mea culpa I’ve ever come across, as an evocation of the state of freedom and fragility that comes when the bottom drops out, Muchacho is captivating. Houck uses ‘Hej’ (sounds like ‘hey’) as his own pet name for God, and borrows the old mystical poetry trick of couching his lyrics as simultaneous addresses to an absent lover and to the divine. There’s a sense of surrender throughout, whether to the thrill of the drive (“Ride On/Right On”), dissolution (“Terror in the Canyons”), or the whirlwind (“A New Anhedonia”). A lot of the language has the taste of Bible leather, but at bottom, Muchacho’s weary vibe can be summed up in the words of its lurching title track:

“I found some fortune, found some fame I found they cauterized my veins Hej, I've been fucked up. And I've been a fool But like the shepherd to the lamb Like the wave unto the sand I'll fix myself up. To come and be with you.”

Houck’s plaintive moan and a shimmering fiddle loop that makes time feel simultaneously like it’s hurtling forward and suspended in place have given Muchacho’s best known track, “Song for Zula,” a long afterlife in soundtrack licensing, but there’s something (inadvertently, I think) subversive about a song with “Zula”’s caged, vehement grief turning up on a show like Superstore. What to make of a nostalgic sitcom montage on the importance of finding moments of reprieve at your workaday job being set to a piece that concludes with the words, “And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free”? That’s what happens when you let a song out into the world—but with any luck a few have followed its silver line back to Muchacho, and found themselves a shade more debauched and enlightened for the trip.

187/365

[intheholler]

yet another queer from the appalachians (the foothills down in 'bama, but still!) just chiming in to thank you for this blog. I ran away from that area over a decade ago now and have been missing it sorely. by chance, do you have any recs for good youtube channels, books, or other things about/by folks from the appalachians?

appalachian alabama what's up!!

i so have some recs!

okay first up is adeem the artist who is uncomfortably underrated so i'm gonna say a little more on them. they're a nonbinary pansexual musician from eastern tn and they make amazing folk country that is commentary on appalachian culture, and their experiences growing up here. some fav songs of mine are asheville blues, i never came out, and my personal favorite 'fuck you' to modern country for exploiting our culture, i wish you would have been a cowboy

josiah and the bonnevilles are another favorite a friend put me onto. "i am appalachia" makes me cry and i'll admit that openly. will always always rec crooked still for their appalachian folk covers/murder ballad covers. literally every song. just all of them

as for books: imo the big three. what you are getting wrong about appalachia by elizabeth catte is a must read. appalachian reckoning: a region responds to hillbilly elegy is another, and hill women by cassie chambers

in a sea of SpOoKy ApPaLaChIa bullshit on tiktok, there is one appalachian account that i delight in the most. andiemarire is a gem

there's just from the top of my head though (which is very shallow these days, as yall may tell by my absence). pls reblog if y'all have more!

[scyllaenjoyer]

(head in hands) Calypso and Odysseus are related. She's his great great aunt

[nataliebeauty]

New here, down for naughty chat and fun

Free to DM 🥵

[ethicaldelrey]

okay so today I'm like really pissed off and I really need to rant even though probably no one's gonna see this.

but I absolutely hate the new tiktok ethel cain fans and how they're so pissed and grossed out about her new album title as if she doesn't have a whole EP named "Inbred" and i will admit i did find out about hayden on tiktok because I heard it was the best album ever and what do yall expect?? for me to go outside dig a hole find a UBS and listen to the album?

also i hate how she's also getting popular because of the it ends with us movie like I think hayden does deserve popularity and legacy but for only for the people who understand her and her work. and there's a special place in hell for the people who think ethel ands isaiah's "relationship" was love. like bye 💀💀 even hayden herself said he wanted to kill her from the start

and the people who compare hayden and lana, yeah they both talk about the americana aesthetic and shit like that. but they're on way different levels of americana. hayden portrays it in a southern way and lana portrays it in a rich sugar daddy way. and i love both hayden and lana but they are not the same even though I long for a collab between the two of them I hardly ever think they actually would.

[ibetittering]

FREAKING OUT THE MUSIC IS BACK I'M SO HAPPY

[goldfishwithablowtorch]

Listening to different beast after legendary because ✨️spotify free✨️ and I can't stop laughing because

"If I fight these monsters is it you I'll find..."

"LET'S CUT THE CHARADE YOU ARE NO WIFE OF MINE" *violent ass horn*

And for a second I was just like "uuummmmmm buddy that's your son" I'm dying help💀💀💀

[midlandcountrymusic]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Every Grain Of Sand

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In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed There’s a dyin’ voice within me reaching out somewhere Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair

Don’t have the inclination to look back on any mistake Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand

Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear Like criminals, they’ve choked the breath of conscience & good cheer The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay

I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name Then onward in my journey I come to understand That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night In the violence of a summer’s dream, in the chill of a wintry light In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand

[Not Dark Yet]

[moonstruation]

Ethel Cain, south alabama (god's country demo)

[asmileworthahundredlies]

[ethicaldelrey]

God loves you but not enough to save you

[goalhofer]

2024-25 Ottawa Senators famous relations

#19 Drake Batherson: Grand-nephew of singer Matt Minglewood, Son of former St. Francis Xavier University men's hockey assistant coach Norm Batherson and nephew of former Richmond RiverDogs D Dennis Vial. #73 Noah Gregor: Son of former Birmingham Bulls LW Colin Gregor. #71 Ridly Greig: Son of former Iserlohn Hähne RW William Greig and nephew of former Mohawk Valley Comets LW the late Bruce Greig. #3 Nick Jensen: Son of former Melbourne Sharks head coach Jeff Jensen, nephew of former A.T.S.E. Graz LW the late Steve Jensen, 2nd cousin of former Rittner Baum D Dave Jensen and cousin of former Nottingham Panthers C Joe Jensen. #9 Josh Norris: Son of former Frankfurt Löwen GM Carl Norris, nephew of former Klagenfurter A.S.C. C Warren Norris and brother of former Kalamazoo Wings LW Coale Norris. #85 Jake Sanderson: Grand-nephew of Edmonton Oil Kings scout Murray Brookbank, son of former New York Islanders development coach Geoff Sanderson and 2nd cousin of Chicago Blackhawks scout Wade Brookbank & Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins assistant coach Sheldon Brookbank. #37 Donovan Sebrango: Son of former C.D.F. Montreal assistant coach Eduardo Sebrango. #7 Braeden Tkachuk: Son of former St. Louis Blues LW Keith Tkachuk, brother of Florida Panthers LW Matthew Tkachuk, brother-in-law of Providence Bruins C John Farinacci, cousin of Hartford Wolf Pack D Casey Fitzgerald, former Utica Comets C Ryan Fitzgerald, Pittsburgh Penguins C Kevin Hayes & former Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins RW the late Jimmy Hayes and 2nd cousin of New Jersey Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald.